trouble at Wix.com and parastorage.com? Web Filter says so

[engine411]

Our staff can't get to Wix.com today, and it appears that parastorage.com is being categorized as fraud/phishing. Evidently, parastorage.com is used by Wix.com.

I tend to trust Untangle in this type of situation. Still, maybe it's a mis-classification?

[jcoffin]

Unfortunately this is the downside of multiple virtually hosted sites. The bad behavior of one site can affect other sites in the same service IP range.

Just submit a new classification using the button at the bottom of Webfilter categories.

[BillyBob]

And this is why I'm here looking around tonight. I've got a customer that can't get a certain website to load so I look and see that it's images are stored on parastorage.com. Funny thing is that they aren't getting a blocked message, the website just freezes and never loads. Are you seeing the same thing Engine411?

I looked up the website on sonicwall content filtering service and they have it categorized as "business and economy"

[engine411]

Yeah, we were seeing similar. The Wix.com site only loaded some text. No graphics. Made it difficult or impossible to login to our hosted site admin there.

[Cods]

The Web Filter block page did not display because the main page is not being blocked, only content being populated on the page. Trying to block only the content sometimes results in the page not loading properly thus the behavior you experienced. Anytime I've run across this type of situation a quick review of the reporting (specifically the Web Filter Blocked Web Events report for this) will show what's being blocked and then creating corresponding pass rules resolves the issue. You can also submit reclassification requests directly to zvelo.com.

[jcoehoorn]

This hit me, too. There's a small museum associate with our campus that hosts it's web site on Wix.

I'm seeing blocked traffic for static.parastorage.com. I'm unable to submit a categorization request right now via UT, and I'm reluctant to add that whole domain to the pass list

[engine411]

Wix.com loads fine for us now. The trouble lasted only about one day. I didn't want to add the entire domain either. I still default to letting Untangle do its job and not telling it not to do its job..... in other words, I don't trust parastorage.com. But for us, the problem went away by itself. Probably some re-classification or reconfiguration of settings somewhere.

[jcoehoorn]

It still shows malicious if I check zvelo directly at zvelo.com/test-a-site. It may be wix is moving content away from that service.

[BillyBob]

Wix.com loads fine for us now. The trouble lasted only about one day. I didn't want to add the entire domain either. I still default to letting Untangle do its job and not telling it not to do its job..... in other words, I don't trust parastorage.com. But for us, the problem went away by itself. Probably some re-classification or reconfiguration of settings somewhere.

The only problem I have with that is that people start screaming when they can't get to websites that are perfectly normal. I don't trust parastorage either but i have to whitelist it.

Another problem I've got is that my home untangle box is not blocking it but my commercial installations are. The website for my kids school is lindaleeagles.org. It comes up at home but not on commercial installations. Same web filter.

Well I totally mispoke. I forgot that I have one of the pc's in my home office bypassing the filters. Duh!

But the issue still remains. I have to whitelist parastorage or tons of websites don't come up.

[BillyBob]

Is it just me or is zvelo the only place that thinks static.parastorage.com is suspicious? Norton, TrendMicro,and Sonicwall don't seem to have a problem with it.